years of state commission regulation. Examples of an adaptive response pattern on the part of regulators, firms and …

We analyze how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affects entry into self-employment and … Germany after reunification. Consistent with our expectations, we find that entry regulation reduces entry into self … changes after unforeseen economic shocks. -- Entry regulation ; self-employment ; occupational mobility …

This paper analyzes how policy changes affect shareholder wealth in the context of environmental regulation. We exploit …

, decrease with anti-competitive regulation in upstream sectors and increase with the industry specific output gap; ii) decrease … with the national output gap, increase with the national employment rate and decrease with employment protection regulation …

We investigate the impact of reporting regulation on corporate innovation activity. Exploiting thresholds in Europe …'s regulation and a major enforcement reform in Germany, we find that forcing a greater share of firms to publicly disclose their …

quantitative estimates of the consequences of government regulation. We estimate the impact of restricting gender-based pricing in …